National love for Giants, Eagles' drafts out of control?

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

I'd rather see an overall 'offseason' ranking.. I'm pretty sure it would look like:
1. Eagles
2. Redskins
3. Giants
4. Cowboys

1. Giants
2. Redskins
3. Eagles (only because of draft)
4. Cowboys

The Eagles pretty much dismantled their team early in the offseason; they lost a ton of key players. They were veteran players, but big losses...Dawkins, Sheppard, Greg Lewis, Buckhalter (who is key because Westbrook is so injury prone every year) and a few others. Runyan is about finished, old and just had knee surgery...no other teams wanted him. McNabb is never happy.

They added Jason Peters, a big signing like ours of Dockery. Hobbs replaces Lito Shep. Macklin is an upgrade over Lewis. They had no comparable replacement for Dawkins.

So, the Eagles basically made some replacements for losses with no major upgrades and a hole at the safety position. How is that a successful offseason?

The Giants made huge additions, mainly on defense. They lost one of their 3-headed RB monster, which really shouldn't hurt them. They had some cancer cut out too with the departure (jailing) of Burress.

We made major upgrades and additions too, so our draft was not as important as it would be to a team like the Eagles who were just trying to fill a ton of holes and try to simply get back to where they started before the off-season losses. Haynesworth, Dockery and keeping Hall were huge. The addition of Orakpo will fill a need we've had for years and didn't work with the Jason Taylor signing. We also picked up a potential starting CB in the future without losing one.

Dallas lost a lot of talented players, albeit not the greatest for locker room presence. Horsecollar Williams, Tank Johnson, Terrell Owens, Chris Canty, Pac Man Jones, Anthony Henry, Zach Thomas. They only added Olshansky and Brooking with a few other non-impact players and Jon Kitna, who they should probably play in December. Their draft was a disaster, from trading their higher picks to taking a second kicker to use only on kickoffs and as a tackling dummy...wasting a roster spot.


Sure the Giants' praise is warranted, but I can't understand the credit the Eagles are being given. They merely made some replacements, not really upgrades with the exception of the WR position. They're no better than last season, possibly slightly downgraded.

The Division should finish:

NJ Giants
Skins
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Philthydelphia/Dallass